As we prepare for hard campaigning ahead, let’s remember the wise words of HG Wells, who wrote in 1919 that science and technology, “give us powers novel in history and bring mankind [sic] face to face with dangers such as it has never confronted before.” This means we can use such power to “enlarge and intensify the scope and evil of war”, but it also “render[s] possible such a reasoned coordination of human affairs as has never hitherto been conceivable.” As a result, he wrote, “It is the most obvious wisdom to set ourselves to anticipate as far as we can, so as to mitigate and control, the inevitable collisions and repercussions of mankind [sic] that are coming upon us.”